Haana R·Oct 29The Modern Practice, Part 1: Client Clarity in Legal ServicesConnecting communication, expectations, and the work behind the scenesA response icon1A response icon1
Nora Whitfield·Oct 14The Worst Tuesday of My Career, Hour by HourI keep the timeline because somebody should. We are very good at recording what a process is supposed to do and almost never record what…
Nora Whitfield·Oct 11He Resigned on a Friday. By Tuesday, His Laptop Had Been Wiped.Nobody did anything wrong. I need to say that at the start, because the story sounds like somebody must have.
James Scott·Oct 9How to Verify a Bates Production Before Sending It: Ranges, Indexes and Stamp PlacementBy the BatesFast team. This article was written with AI assistance. We build a Bates-numbering application. The checks below work…
James Scott·Oct 9Bates Number Multiple PDFs Without Merging Them: A Practical Batch WorkflowBy the BatesFast team. This article was written with AI assistance. We build the tool mentioned below; the workflow and examples are useful…
Nora Whitfield·Oct 9Everyone Confirmed They Read It. So I Went and Asked Them.The slide said the confirmation rate was in the nineties, and the room took that as good news. I remember feeling quite pleased with…
Mr.PlanB·Oct 3How Should Law Firms Interpret and Apply Outside Counsel Guidelines?Law firms can apply OCGs more consistently by identifying rule types, preserving source context, tracking versions, and separating routine…
Nora Whitfield·Sep 30Who Owns the Data? Nobody. Next Question.I once sat in a meeting where seven people agreed that something urgent needed to happen to a set of company data, and not one of them had…
Nora Whitfield·Sep 29We Had Four Systems Doing One Job, and I Signed Off on Three of ThemThe audit took a morning. By eleven I had found four different places where my company was tracking whether employees had been told to…
Nora Whitfield·Sep 23The Spreadsheet That Runs Your Legal DepartmentA woman I worked with kept a spreadsheet that, had it ever been deleted, would have cost the company more than her entire team’s salaries.
